Sidewalk etiquette
By Kathleen Baines | November 1, 2010Our generation has lost most forms of etiquette - it's a bold claim, albeit a true one. I have my own theories as to why this decline happened - the substitution of old-fashioned methods of child-rearing with the "I'm your buddy, not your parent" model, the refusal to believe that this is actually real life and that if you say something nasty, MTV won't intervene with a bleep or a conveniently placed commercial break.